On April 26th, GEOG PhD Candidate, Michael Strong, received an award for the 2015 Association of American Geographer's (AAG) Africa Specialty Group (ASG) student paper competition.  The award was presented to Strong by the ASG Chair, Dr. Joseph Zume, and acknowledged during the awards ceremony at the AAG annual meeting in Chicago.  The paper, entitled, "Changing Geographies of Place Attachment in Limpopo National Park" (Mozambique), was based on Strong's first dissertation article and is currently under review at the African Geographical Review.